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FSX Maps and ATC radar and stuff

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davehirst

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I run a little multiplayer community over here in the uk. We use a bit of software to log flight plans and pass control between ATCs

One thing I've noticed is the FSX radar is a bit naff when it comes to controlling ground so I've pulled out the airport info from fsx and used it to construct some better maps that we can use highlighting taxiways etc.

Also managed to combine the map with real SID/STAR info I managed to grab.

Still need to hook into fsx and display aircraft on the map and a few other pretty bits. Probably going to take another week to get to version 1.0.

Anybody got any other ideas I could incorparate?

Video here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083bdYYA15o
 
Hi Folks

Dave -
Most impressive. :cool:

Have you seen/used Tim Arnot's Plan-G

It'd be awesome
if the two of you could integrate these products. :D

ATB
Paul
 
Thanks for the comments.

Yes I have seen plan-G, that really is awsome stuff, better then I could ever do.

There are a few differences here, Plan-G is aimed at the pilot, as is FS Commander. Both take their info from your local FSX, in the case of FS-commander you run an extract routine to compile it's own database of facilities and I suspect plan-G is similar.

Mines a bit different as I'm storing all the airport info on the internet, so users download the same data. The benefit is all users in our sessions will have the same airport maps, the same taxiway names and the same gate positions. This gets round the problem of people having conflicting information with using real world charts or add on scenery. That's the plan anyway, still need to get our users to agree!

My other incentive was FS-commander doesn't display aircraft call signs very well. It's ok with tail numbers but callsigns get truncated and mixed up. They say this is due to them using fsuipc. Since our group is purely fsx I can use simconnect and avoid this constraint.
 
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